Nicaraguan Leader Has Say

U.S. & Latin America - Latin American & Caribbean News to Note

November 9, 2001

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan President-elect Enrique Bolanos said Thursday that he would build his administration from the ground up with "a new image, a new style, new politics." The promise added to signs of a growing distance from outgoing President Arnoldo Aleman, a fellow member of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party who is widely unpopular because of allegations of corruption. Bolanos, a 73-year-old businessman who served as vice president under Aleman, takes over Jan. 10.